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CV: contractile vacuole.
The arrow indicates the posterior depression.
The arrowhead indicates the fairly thin gel-like covering on the front of the cell.
The line on the left is 0.02mm (for comparison, human hair varies in width between 0.02 and 0.2mm). © J Gong, 2008
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